Mohandas Gandhi’s Celibacy Experiments
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, who later received accolades like Mahatma, Bapu and Father of the Nation, is usually associated with morality, ethics, self-abnegation, piety and self-control. Gandhi openly spoke about issues of sexuality to his followers and gave them advice on how to conduct themselves in both public as well as private. However often his More...
Moronic Inferno featuring Pankaj Mishra
In the build-up to the Lok Sabha 2019 elections, a number of foreign news outlets had written scathingly about India, and especially it’s PM Narendra Modi. Aatish Tasseer’s “Divider in Chief” cover for Time, More...
From a falsehood, anything
In Classical Logic, we come across the principle of explosion. That is, if one assumes a seeming contradiction is true, then anything that we state can be proved. For example, take two starting assumptions ‘Either More...
New York Times Peddles Myth and Calls it History: A response to Romila Thapar
Recently, the New York Times published an article by historian Romila Thapar titled “They Peddle Myths and Call it History“, it goes on to propagate a dozen half truths and full lies. This article attempts to More...
Eastern Religions: Deluded Constructions of the European World- III
[contextly_sidebar id=”e8mZdrfi1cIDLxmTVPk4oEPmuOyV0Q4q”] In the previous parts, we saw the nature of Christian encounters with the Roman world and the Indian sub-continent, along with attempts of western More...
Eastern Religions: Deluded Constructions of the European World- II
[contextly_sidebar id=”ivF2z95KoBClMpdUdSC8PF1DnOF5VU0K”] In the first part, we saw the nature of encounters of Christianity first with the Romans and later with the Indians. Indians, in turn, had an More...
Eastern Religions: Deluded Constructions of the European World- I
There are a few books which come with a stunning impact. “Do All Roads Lead to Jerusalem?” is one such work, turning all our cherished notions about religion on its head. A new paradigm with a better More...
Rama versus Devi: Battleground Bengal
A narrative which in recent times has gained popularity in media houses like ABP Ananda, Hindustan Times, and Bengali left-liberal “intellectual” circles is that of Rama versus Devi in the context of More...
Mr. President, It Is High Time That You Turfed Out the Mamata Regime in Bengal
The President of the Indian Republic must now do something that the country’s conscience enjoins and the Constitution and law demand – dismiss the utterly egregious, venal, violent and subversive state government More...
The Origins of Cultural Marxism: A Concise Account
Marxism and ‘Cultural Marxism’ What is Marxism? Let us say that it is an interpretation of history provided by Karl Marx that inspires a particular kind of politics. As an interpretation of history Marxism is More...